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why hello! happy new year! i know y’all think i have all but abandoned this blog. and that is partly true. life was in a perpetual rush hour for a bit there, what with feeling ENORMOUS and exhausted, having a newborn and working on holiday cards. i have been taking it majorly easy since the holiday card craziness died down and it’s been fab! i’ve been thinking about this blog and missing it. i’m hoping to pop in more in 2015, and definitely make good on some blog promises (um hello, the finished kitchen is a year old and i have yet to photograph it still! ridiculous!). but to get caught up… here’s what went down in 2014.

JAN:

bask in the glory of what is a newly renovated kitchen – and the departure of the workmen! not that i didn’t love them. because we were homies. lots of meals cooked in, and moving back into our new spaces oh so carefully… you know, like when you really contemplate how your baking pans should be organized (loaf pan up front? how about bundt? nah, that goes at the back since i’ve never used it and all. but would i use it more if it were up front…?).

FEB:

positive pregnancy test. proceed to immediately, if not sooner, feel like death warmed over and “show.” am instantly wearing maternity pants…and kind of loving it. oh and here’s how i broke the news to rbb… on one of our friday night pizzas. in my head, he comes home hungry and i say “oh! pizza is reheating in the oven, why don’t you serve it up for everyone.” in real life, his plane was delayed and i had to feed the kids so there was no resemblance of a 3 by the time he saw it. #fail

MAR:

turn 34. wait a minute, i’m merely one year younger than carrie in that sex and the city episode where she turns 35 and no one shows up for her birthday and she has to pay for her own cake. how can that be? the mid-30s sure came up quick. am working on a lot of small business logos and love it. i absolutely adore helping other entrepreneur mamas.

APR:

amazingly, our first trip to the ER for stitches. of course, it occurs the night before we leave for a spring break beach trip… isn’t that just the way? (see chin below)

MAY:

muffins for moms…my favorite day of preschool. i always cry.

dear friend dorothy gets married on daufuskie island (which is gorgeous and completely unspoiled). will have to feature that soon; we did the save the dates and programs together.

JUNE:

rush turns 5. what?! aside from this, we basically live at the pool.

JULY:

we begin transforming the nursery into a big girl room/nursery for rinne and the new baby… goodbye yellow and chalkboard wall! nice knowing ya.

and my college girls and i took to lake oconee for a reunion trip. why have i never been there? it’s just an hour and some down the road and so pretty!

AUG:

beach trip to fripp island. i guess this is our last year going in august since rush starts kindergarten next year!

SEPT:

rinne turns 3. she wants a party, and she wants nemo cupcakes. buy nemo cupcake toppers from etsy and serve them on cupcakes at a small neighborhood bbq we hosted two weeks before her birthday…call it a day. 4 will have to be legit though.

OCT:

countdown to baby is on. i am SO BIG that people everywhere are amazed. no one thinks i will make it to my scheduled c-section at 39 weeks – which i did, thankyouverymuch. as i walk out of shake shack (omg the custards) 4 days before my scheduled c, a lady says to me: “you havin’ a BIG OL’ BOY.” i say you know what? i think so too.

well well well, we had a big ol’ GIRL!

NOV:

baby snuggles and holiday cards. that is literally all that happened. (and my mom came to help me, a lot – thanks mom!)

DEC:

still cranking on holiday cards. squeal with excitement on the day that i ship off boxes of “cheers” and “merry christmas” tags to all three kayce hughes stores!!!!! i never could have even dreamed that up.

manage to step away from holiday cards and feeding round the clock to take rinne to the nutcracker at the fox theatre for the first time – which i’ve only been looking forward to since the day she was born. we had a ball. 2014 – you were good to us! i can’t wait to see what 2015 brings. i hope to keep the blog more updated, but have been a lot more active on instagram (@calliespondence) lately. i do have some fun parties, weddings and house before/afters to show you…so i’ll be back soon i hope!

best of everything to you and yours in 2015, and thanks for your support in 2014!!

xoxo

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it’s been a minute. summer went by in a flash, as did september, and here we are in october!! crazy. october means a few things… 1) pumpkin spice lattes, 2) holiday cards get cranking (already shipped out my 1st order!) and 3) THAT NEW BABY COMES. OMG. “new baby” (the most imaginative name you’ve ever heard, right? poor 3rd child) arrives at the end of the month, which is just wild. i am both terrified and excited…! i will be accepting holiday card orders until early december this year, but if it gets too crazy, i might cut them off early (eek! get your order in in oct/nov if you can!). well, that and if i’m hallucinating because of the sleep deprivation.

here is all of the information you could possibly want to know about the 2014 calliespondence holiday cards! (but if you do have further questions, email me at callie@calliespondence.com)